Dr. Anna Hedström received her MD in 2008 and completed her PhD in Medical Sciences in 2016. She currently has a postdoc position at the Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Hedström’s research interests focus on inflammatory diseases and their relation to genetics, immunology and life style/environmental factors. She has been involved in collecting a very large MS case-control dataset, needed for the identification of MS risk genes and their interaction with lifestyle factors such as smoking and obesity.